CBDP The Standard for Bot Defense Practitioners
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IX Sections · 50 Lectures

A peer-reviewed course in adversarial traffic.

Every detection technique paired with the evasion it provokes — and every evasion with the cost of stopping it.

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Foundational

  • I Introduction & Setup 4h · 4 lec
  • II Bot History & Taxonomy 5h · 5 lec

Applied

  • III Browser Fingerprinting & Device Identity 8h · 6 lec
  • IV Automation & Headless Browser Detection 7h · 6 lec
  • V IP Intelligence & Network-Layer Detection 8h · 7 lec

Advanced

  • VI Behavioral Analytics & ML for Bot Detection 10h · 9 lec
  • VII CAPTCHAs & API Security 8h · 7 lec
  • VIII CDN, WAF & Production Integration 7h · 5 lec
  • IX Final Q1 Project & Public Deliverables 6h · 1 lec

Featured lab

Build from browser fingerprinting & device identity.

A public assignment track from Section 3, built around fingerprinting and browser.

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Field notes from operators on both sides of the wire.

Long-form essays, condensed cheatsheets, and a working glossary maintained alongside the curriculum.

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Reading

  • B The Blog Long-form essays from instructors.
  • G Field Guides Onboarding and lab workflow.
  • R RSS Feed Subscribe in your reader of choice.

Reference

  • A Glossary Working definitions for the field.
  • # Cheatsheets Printable one-pagers for the lab.
  • L Lab Tracks Hands-on labs, ungated.

Latest from the field

Why headless detection lost the arms race in 2025.

A retrospective on the decade the headless flag mattered, and the decade it stopped being enough.

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Foundational

  • Introduction & Setup 4h · 4 lec
  • Bot History & Taxonomy 5h · 5 lec

Applied

  • Browser Fingerprinting & Device Identity 8h · 6 lec
  • Automation & Headless Browser Detection 7h · 6 lec
  • IP Intelligence & Network-Layer Detection 8h · 7 lec

Advanced

  • Behavioral Analytics & ML for Bot Detection 10h · 9 lec
  • CAPTCHAs & API Security 8h · 7 lec
  • CDN, WAF & Production Integration 7h · 5 lec
  • Final Q1 Project & Public Deliverables 6h · 1 lec
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Reading

  • The Blog Long-form essays from instructors.
  • Field Guides Onboarding and lab workflow.
  • RSS Feed Subscribe in your reader of choice.

Reference

  • Glossary Working definitions for the field.
  • Cheatsheets Printable one-pagers for the lab.
  • Lab Tracks Hands-on labs, ungated.
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CBDP The Standard for Bot Defense Practitioners

An open, peer-reviewed certification standard for security practitioners who own adversarial traffic in production environments.


Curriculum

  • All sections
  • I. Foundations
  • III. Fingerprinting
  • VIII. Edge enforcement

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The Standard

  • Established MMXXVI
  • Public Draft v0.3
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